Tuesday, May 7, 2013

INDEVCO Group announces a new and
improved News Network with consolidated news from the group’s divisions and
plants worldwide.

INDEVCO, a multinational group of
manufacturing plants headquartered in Lebanon, has launched INDEVCO News Network to provide visitors with the latest news and developments from business
units, industry and market trends. The portal replaces OUTBOUND, INDEVCO’s
previous blog at OUTBOUND.indevcogroup.com.

Corporate highlights news from INDEVCO
Group, as well as news from Phoenix Group, including Phoenix Machinery and
Phoenix Energy. The section focuses on group-wide initiatives, awards, events,
and other developments.

Corrugated Packaging features news
pertaining to INDEVCO’s corrugated packaging manufacturing companies in Egypt,
Greece, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. The section focuses on business unit
news, product development, sustainable packaging, quality control and
certifications, industry trends, events and exhibitions, new machinery and lean
manufacturing.

Paper and Plastics provide news about the
group’s flexible packaging manufacturing plants in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
These sections offer deep-level product focused articles, as well as news of
certifications, industry developments, events and exhibitions.

Tissue Making sheds light on developments
at INDEVCO’s tissue mills in Egypt, Lebanon and the US. The section highlights
certifications, environmental and community initiatives and events, and quality
manufacturing practices at the plant.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Sanita redesigns Private website, in line with the brand’s new vibrant packaging design and slogan ‘a new passion for pink’.Private, aleading feminine hygiene brand in the Middle East, launches a revamped website, customized to better meet visitor information needs. The website helps acquaint customers to the new colorful packaging design for Private feminine hygiene products, while featuring up-to-date information on the products pageabout Private brand’s variety of sanitary napkins and panty liners.Private website helps visitors stay in tune with the brand’s latest campaigns and news by linking to social media channels. Visitors can also watch Private ‘Passionate by Nature’ TV commercial directly from the website.

Friday, April 26, 2013

Phoenix Machinery, Lebanese industrial machine manufacturer, signs supplementary agreement with SIEMENS to include the Process Control System – SIMATIC PCS7 in solution partnership.

Phoenix Machinery and SIEMENS extend solution partnership agreement to include SIMATIC PCS7, a homogeneous and integrated process control system suitable for optimizing all operating sequences of a company. SIMATIC PCS7 boosts plant efficiency and integrates safety technology offering a safer working environment and smooth continuous system operations for reliable protection of personnel and environment, as well as process and plant. With effortless integration into SIEMENS’ Totally Integrated Automation, SIMATIC PCS7 provides universal, customized technology for all applications of process automation, starting with input logistics, covering production or primary processes, as well as downstream (secondary) processes, up to output logistics. As an approved SIEMENS solutions partner, Phoenix Machinery offers SIMATIC PCS7 Innovations 2013.

Enhance customer service by offering local service and support through a global network of experts and authorized partners

Process Control System - SIMATIC PCS 7 Functions

Homogeneous & Uniform

The merge of automation engineering and information technology drives growing demand for flexible production plants, seamlessly integrated universal automation engineering solutions, and increased productivity. Manufacturers can use SIMATIC PCS 7 as a standalone process control system or can integrate it with the SIMATIC, SIMOTION, or drive systems to capitalize on a consistent and homogeneous overall system.

Totally Integrated Automation with SIMATIC PCS7 combines consistent data management, communication and configuration with exceptional system properties and high performance.

Flexibility & Scalability

SIMATIC PCS7 architecture allows customers to configure and expand system instrumentation and control in order to meet requirements and optimally match plant dimensions, as well as adapt to changes in capacity or technological modifications. The process control system reduces costs that would arise from expensive reserve capacity.

Openness for the Future

SIMATIC PCS7 modular hardware and software components can be expanded and innovated and remain viable for the future with long-term stable interfaces.SIMATIC PCS7 can be combined with components from other vendors, and integrated in existing infrastructures. The openness feature provides programming and data transfer interfaces for user programs, as well as import/export functions for graphics, text, and data.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

For OUTBOUND home page, go to http://outbound.indevcogroup.comAt Gulf Print & Pack 2013, Phoenix
Machinery and Erhardt+Leimer (E+L) exhibit system
solutions and automation technologies for paper, corrugating, and printing
industry. The annual printing and packaging event took place from 8 - 11 April
2013 at Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre (DICEC) in
UAE.

About Phoenix
MachineryPhoenix Machinery in Safra, Lebanon manufactures
hygiene and tissue converting machines, high precision CNC components and
machined parts, as well as develops and integrates machinery automation, process
automation and power distribution solutions.

Take a look at Global Green USA's recap of the 'Follow that Box' tour to farms in Belle Glade, South Florida:Field Report: Follow That Box to South FloridaSourced from:http://globalgreen.org/blogs/global/?p=6705Contact: Lily Kelly

When I was taking history classes as a kid growing up in Florida, the rich farmland just to the south of Lake Okeechobee figured prominently – this incredibly fertile farming region played a significant role in turning Florida from a frontier into one of the most populous states in the country. This past Tuesday, I and members of Global Green USA’s Coalition for Resource Recovery (CoRR) saw firsthand some of this historically significant dirt and the plentiful crops it produces. However, the purpose of this field trip wasn't a history lesson. We are out to find out if these farms in South Florida are good candidates for recyclable boxes for shipping their produce.For the third installment of our “Follow That Box” tour series, we brought seven members of the CoRR team to Belle Glade, a small farming city about an hour inland from West Palm Beach. The trip brought together farmers, box makers, and cooling facility managers and discuss how to replace the unrecyclable wax-coated boxes, and wooden crates, currently used on these farms.

Every year, 1.45 million tons of cardboard are buried in landfills because their wax coating renders them unrecyclable (source: the EPA’s 2010 Municipal Solid Waste Facts and Figures and the Fibre Box Association’s estimate that 5% of corrugated boxes disposed in the U.S. are wax-coated.) If all these boxes were recycled instead, the greenhouse gas emissions reduction would be equivalent to shutting down an entire coal-fired power plant. The big challenge is to find a recyclable coating that is strong enough to keep the box intact, even when it is full of melting ice and under hundreds of pounds of weight for days while it is being shipped across the country. They key is the cooling method – the more water and ice they use, the tougher the box has to be.During the trip, we visited three major farm locations in the Belle Glade area. Every farming region is unique, and the cooling methods we had seen in New Jersey and California were somewhat different from what we saw in these places. Belle Glade growers use more wooden crates than many other growers we’ve visited, and the cooling processes are a bit different. Crates of corn and beans are stacked onto pallets and run through large hydro-coolers, which pour extremely cold water over the boxes, for up to an hour. However, the farmers’ interest is the same – all the growers want to be able to purchase a strong, recyclable produce box for their products, but since they purchase millions of boxes each year, they can’t handle any additional cost to the boxes.

The CoRR members we brought along manufacture recyclable boxes that can survive most cooling methods. Now that they’ve seen firsthand how cooling works in South Florida, they just might be able to replace the unrecyclable boxes used down here too. Stay tuned for more updates.